Paper-pad holder.



L. SMITH.

PAPER PAD HOLDER. APPLIOATION FILED APR.23, 191s.

Patented Sept. 8, 1914.

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UNITED STATES Louis SMITH, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PAPER-PAID HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed April 23, 1913.

Patented Sept. 8, 1914. Serial No. 763,078.

To all whom it may concern p Be it known that LVLOUIS SMITH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper-Pad Holders; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to pad holders of that kind designed to hold a pad or block of sheets of paper in a position convenient for writing thereon and to permit the sheets to be readily detached or torn from the pile or pad. I

The invention consists in the matters hereinafter set forth and more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

I have shown in the drawings the adaptation of my improvements to .a desk pad holder and also to a telephone pad holder, but the invention may be otherwise applied.

As shown in the drawings :Figure 1,;1s a perspective view of a desk pad holder embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the base of the holder shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary detail illustrating one manner of fixing the resilient pad supporting plate to the base frame. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary detail to be hereinafter described. Fig. 0 illustrates the application of my improvements to a telephonepad holder.

Referring first to the construction shown in Figs. 1 to .4, inclusive, or the adaptation of the invention to a desk pad holder, 10 designates, as a whole, the base or frame and 11 designates the spring pad supporting plate which directly supports the block or pad of sheets 12. The base or frame l0 may be, as is herein shown as, made of a single piece of sheet metal cut and swaged into form. The piece of sheet metal from which the base is formed is bent downwardly at its margin to produce the oblique side and end walls let, 15. The front part of the top wall of the hollow base thus produced is inclined at 16 with respect to the horizontal portion 17, and said inclined portion of the top wall is provided with openings 18. The rear end of the top wall of the base is out out and is bent up about its integral rear margin to provide at the rear end of the device an upstanding member 19, the margin of which is provided with down-turned spurs or teeth 20 which bite which is plate 11. turned over throughout its width toprovide at ceive advertising matter. g

The pad supporting plate may be made of spring metal. As herein shown, it is attached at its forward end to the inclined portion 16 of the top wall of the base and extends at its rear enc beneath the overhanging spurs or teeth 20 of the upstanding member 19. The said plate may be attached to the inclined portion 16 of the upper wall of the base in any suitable manner, as by means of integral spurs 22 (Fig. formed from the plate and extended through the openings 18 and clenched bepressed thereagainst by the spring neath the top wall. of the base." The spring or resilient pad supporting plate when thus attached to the inclined portion wall of the base tends toward the the teeth; the.upstandingflange 19, but it is permitted to yield downwardly about the fulcrum line 23 between the inclined portion 16, and the horizontal portion ll'of the base.

To insert a pad in the holder the pad is placed on the resilient plate 11 and the rear end of the plate, de ressed to permit the pad to he slid under the overhanging spurs 20. The plate is then released and the resiliency of the plate forces the pad toward the teeth or spurs 20 and said teeth or spurs coast with the resilient plate to hold the pad in plate while permitting the individual sheets I to be readily torn therefrom.

In order to'prevent the points of the teeth or spurs 20 from being chilled or bent when only a few sheets of paper, or no sheets, are in the holder, the rear end of the spring pad supporting plate is provided with openings 24 which receive the po-intsof the teeth or spurs when the plate occupies its uppermost position, as shown in Fig. 4.

In Fig. 5 I have shown my improved pad holder as applied to a telephone attachment to hold a pad or block in convenient position for entering'memoranda thereon. As shown in said figure, 25 designates the shaft of the telephone to which the holder is atto rise at its rear end or projections20 of into the p ad,

21 a narrow horizontal ledge to re' of the top Preferably the member 19 is tached.,, The holder comprises a base 26, having at its forward end an inclined portion 27 to which the resilient pad holding plate 28 is attached, in the same general manner as in the construction before described. Said base is provided at its rear end with an upstanding portion 29 which is provided at its upper edge with an overhanging portion 30 having at its margin downwardly pointed prongs or teeth 31 which bite into the upper sheets of the pad supported on the plate 28 in the manner before described. The said holder is attached to the shaft of the telephone by any suitable form of clip 32.

In both forms of the pad holder the spring urged pad holding plate should be made slightly wider than the base, as best shown in Fig. 1, in order to permit the side margins thereof to be grasped by the thumb and fingers to manipulate the plate.

he holder described reliably holds the individual sheets of a block or pad while permitting them to be readily detached or torn off from the pad when desired. Moreover, the holder permits the use of each entire sheet of paper either for writing purposes or for advertising purposes, if it be desired to use the sheets for advertising, no stub being left after the sheets are used, such as occurs where the sheets are clamped between a base and a clamping member having a continuous biting edge. The space 30 may be occupied by permanent advertising matter.

In the construction shown in Figs. 1 to l, inclusive, the side and end walls 14:, 15 respectively, of the base constitute surfaces to receive permanent advertising matter, so that it becomes unnecessary, in order to realize the full advertising value of the device, for the person furnishing the holder to subsequently furnish the blocks or pads to be used therewith. In other words, plain or unprinted pads may be employed without detracting from the value of the advertising feature of the device.

It will be understood that slight variations may be made in the structural details without departure from the of the invention, and the i limited to the details illust hereinafter spirit and scope nvention is not rated except as made the subject of specific claims or as imposed by the prior art.

I claim as my 1nvent1on:- 1. IL holder for a pad of paper sheets comprising a sheet metal base rear end with an upstanding at its upper margin near upstanding member inte provided at its member having the ends of said gral, laterally spaced, down turned teeth to engage the upper sheets of the pad near their margins only,-sa1d base being formed at 1ts forward end with a forwardly and clined surface, and a pad downwardly insupporting spring plate attached to the base at said inclined forward portion thereof and extending upwardly and rearwardly therefrom with 1ts rear end beneath said teeth, rear end of which and pad is adapted to be 2. A paper holder vided with a top wall, said its forward end an oblique portion,

and between the said teeth a paper confined. comprising a base prowall having at said top wall being cut away at its rear portion and tlie cut away portion being turned upwardly and provlded at 1ts margin and near its ends with depending teeth,

and a pad supporting plate attached to the oblique portion of the top wall and urged by its resiliency at its rear end toward In testimony, as my invention I aifix my presence of two witnesses, t

April A. D. 1913.

said teeth.

that I claim the foregoing signature in the his 15th day of LOUIS SMITH.

\Vitnesses W. L. HALL, G. E. DOWLE.

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